Left: panels (A) and (B) show the residual meridional flows averaged over 10°–25° away from θ_m (marked by dotted–dashed lines in Figure 1) in the northern (solid) and southern (dashed) hemispheres at depths 0.99R_⊙ and 0.95R_⊙, respectively. Panel (C) shows the similarly averaged unsigned line of sight (LOS) HMI magnetic field (∣B∣), while panel (D) shows the unsigned polar field from WSO measurements. Right: scatterplots illustrating the correlation between variation of unsigned magnetic field and the flow residuals covering the period of cycle 24 (2010 October–2018 June), along with the estimated Spearman rank correlation coefficients; the top four panels correspond to both quantities averaged over the same latitudinal range (10°–25° away from θ_m), at depths of 0.95R_⊙ (left column) and 0.99R_⊙ (right column), for the northern (top row) and southern (bottom row) hemispheres, while the bottom four panels show the correlation between same flow signals against the unsigned magnetic field averaged over the whole active latitude range of 5°–40°.